With the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Microsoft unveiled test previews of new music and video apps. It’s a sign the company is trying to build viable competitors to iTunes and Amazon while taking ...

Every modern operating system necessarily has some type of music playback app. It’s nonnegotiable—like including a calculator or offering the ability to print. But gone are the days when users loaded ...

Buffalo 8 has created Buffalo 8 Music, a new division meant to serve as a one-stop hub for creators, producers, composers and rights holders. Longtime music supervisor Mason Cooper will become a ...

8 Tracks is your antidote to the algorithm. Each week, NPR Music producer Lars Gotrich, with the help of his colleagues, makes connections between sounds across time. Synesthesia, according to an NPR ...

Last month, Ender Labs gave iPad users a Metro-styled music player with Track 8, and while it doesn’t offer much functionality over the stock iOS music app, it is an aesthetically pleasing and ...

Walking into Chris Mylrea's studio in Port Melbourne is like walking into a video game console museum. His desk is crowded with Sega Mega Drives, Commodore 64s and Nintendos of all flavours — and they ...